I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG

I know that am not qualified to say any of this but I will anyhow.

If any of you have never read any books by DeBono, then you should. In
his book, “I AM RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG”, DeBono points out that this type
of logic no longer resolves the issues that we have and that it often
leads to no more than unnecessary conflict. This list, and its diatribes
about YEC is a great example of bad thinking (IMO). Instead of solving
the problem, this list compounds the problem.

As Christians, our primary goal is to spread the Good News and attempt
to lead people to an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ as both
Savior and Lord. This list has adopted the myopic view that everybody is
a scientist and any contrary view must be destroyed by argument. I
suggest that this is unwise and probably “unchristian”.

There exist two basic problems.

1.) Non-Christians with a reasonable scientific background think that
Christians are total loonies. The reason is the widespread notion that
they believe in “fairy tales”, think the world (if not universe) is a
few thousand years old, and reject evolution despite all the scientific
evidence.
2.) Many Christians have little background in science and depend upon a
relatively literal reading of scripture. To them, evolution (as taught
in the secular community) is abhorrent. It replaces God with a RANDOM
process (and they are not about to, listen to a “song and dance” about
how God controls the random process since that flies in the face of very
meaning of the word).

There are millions of Christians in the second group but this list sees
only a handful of people and attacks the concept of YECism with a
viciousness that is clearly unchristian (IMHO). Worse than that, it is
non-constructive at best and most likely is highly counterproductive in
reality.

The trees are those few who distort science. The forest is the millions
of Christians who cannot tell bad science from good science ------- or
even believe that science has any relevance whatsoever.

Like many, I received a letter from Jack Haas.

 I like the following quote from a supporter of the LEC.

“The young-earth message has bitten very deeply into the evangelical
culture, and people trust this message. What will it take to show people
believingly that the young-earth view is not the only possible one
without undermining the Christianity of those who hold that position?”

Note that it does not reflect the “RIGHT-WRONG” view but rather a
balanced Christian perspective.

It takes two to fight or argue. It is not right for ASAers to put all
the blame on “YECs” (while meaning only a few trees in the YEC rain
forest) and being so absolutely pigheaded at the same time.

I should say “enough said” but it really is not.

I’ll quit anyhow.

Walt

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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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